Weekend Update.

I guess you can see school started again.. my blog posts are slowing down. I am going to try my best to keep up this year.

On Saturday morning, we were up bright and early for Scholar's Bowl 2011. This competition was over Language Arts. Emma was Team Captain, which she loves to do. And here is Emma with her team - they won first place for 1st grade county wide!

Emma holding the trophy! Yey, Emma!

Wouldnt you know that she answered the questions on fairy tales? Prince Charming, # of Dwarfs, what happens at the end - she knew it all.

Because she is stressed out easily she did not sleep much on Friday night. On top of that, she has a sore throat and was seriously cranky and crying the rest of the day. I am afraid that there is a bug trying to come into the house.

I went and bought my new furniture for my new room last week. I have to say that I love it! The Sheetrock people will be here on Monday (tomorrow) and they should be done on Wednesday. Then, all we like is flooring to be put down (which is going to be on Friday). I am so excited about my new space. The kids automatically asked where the TV is going - no T.V. area - and so they were a little sad about that. This room is a reading/talking/game room for us to have more space. Maybe I will do a picture post when it is all finished.

My host teacher gave me full rights to teach 2nd grade Science. I have never taught science before, so I have been researching this morning about what lessons to do. :/

Can I have some snow, please :) Maybe Wednesday night, after my sheet rock is up?

I think I will talk about.... snow?

Because I want it to snow, I just know that it won't. I am so tired this week. I guess the sleeplessness of the weekend has caught up with me. So I would love to stay in bed until 8 a.m.

Emma has been fussy today. Tripp is ok. So are all the big kids. Dave got a good doctors report today. He starts Physical Therapy. He can go back to work in about four weeks.

We start our adoption counseling on Thursday. We are going to go over anything we may or may not need to discuss. Off the top of my head, I couldn't think of anything to list that needs to be discussed or that we need help with.

So, week three of student teaching.I have learned so much! I may start a student teaching blog just to keep up with those little moments that I need to remember.

Ah,lets see... the wall in the kitchen came down today. I have to find some flooring. Also, I picked out my new furniture. I am going to order it tomorrow. The sheetrock guy will be here on Friday! We are making progress.

Homework?

Yesterday, Dave and I took Emma and Tripp to a birthday party for Emma's school friend. There were lots of kids there from the class. As I was talking to one of the mother's she asked me , "Did the kids read the same Reading story for two weeks?"

Um, I don't know.

I felt like the goofiest person ever. I had no idea.

I don't check Emma's homework or help her with it. Emma is so organized that she does her homework during after school or on Friday night/Saturday morning. She sits in her room on her bed and does it by herself.

And I don't check it. I felt like a heel telling her that I had no idea.

So when we get home, all the big kids were being quiet. They were all doing homework. And at 9 pm. they were still doing homework. They were banking on another snow day. And we were just two hours late.

This is the first time EVER that Eli has had homework. Michelle does it by herself and Annie is a procrastinator - she will figure out if an undone assignment will fail her or not.

So my lesson is this: make sure the kids do their homework. Even Emma - that way I look involved :)